Platform investment decisions in product family design

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 3 PART A, Issue , 2008, Pages 373-384

  Zacharias, Nicolas A ^a   Yassine, Ali A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Platform design; Product architecture; Product commonality; Product development; Product family planning

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING; DESIGN THEORY AND METHODOLOGY; ENGINEERING DESIGNS; IN ORDER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; MARKET COVERAGE; MARKET SEGMENTS; MARKETING MODELS; MICRO AND NANO SYSTEMS; PRODUCT FAMILIES; PRODUCT FAMILY DESIGN; TECHNICAL CONFERENCES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; ENGINEERING; FINANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSENSORS; MODELS; NANOSYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 44849104235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2007-35915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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